Lives remembered: Roger Bigley

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Bigley: he toured the world at a hectic pace and covered a huge repertoire

Published at 12:01AM, August 23 2013

Roger Bigley

Alan Reid writes: Roger Bigley’s obituary (August
19) makes little mention of the Lindsay Quartet’s regular concerts and
annual festivals of chamber music in the Crucible Studio, Sheffield. Bigley
played a full part in bringing outstanding performances of a repertoire
seldom (in those days) heard outside capital cities and brought unfamiliar
masterpieces to life in Sheffield to rapturous applause from a devoted
following.

On his relinquishing his role with the quartet, they played the Schubert
string quintet in a tense and emotional atmosphere. The violins and cellos
parted like the Red Sea to allow the balm, humanity and